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Armenian mafia
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The Armenian mafia is a general term for organized criminal gangs based in Yerevan, Moscow and other major Russian cities, that consist of ethnic Armenians. It is spread over all post-Soviet states, the structure is organized in clans called akhperutyuns. In the capital city of Yerevan, there are 12 districts that are called neighbourhood communities, officially, each district is governed by a prefect elected by the residents, but in reality each district is unofficially claimed by several mafia clans. The different factions battle for their own turf, the clans get money through the prefects, who collect funds from markets, through allocation of lands and from the sale of business spaces. Each prominent member has a nickname that is known by residents of the capital. Armenian Power Russian mafia Thief in law Gulag Crime in Armenia Corruption in Armenia

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Cohen crime family
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The Cohen crime family, or the Siegel crime syndicate, was an Italian-American Mafia / Jewish Mafia crime family created by New York Jewish American mobster Benjamin Bugsy Siegel in the early 1930s. Furthermore, although many of the Cohen familys high-ranking members and soldiers were Jewish gangsters, the Cohen family also adopted the Italian Mafias machismo culture and operated under the Italian Mafias structure, rules, and customs. The organization was allied with the Five Mafia Families—specifically the Luciano crime family—in New York, the Chicago Outfit in Chicago, Siegels family was the primary target for organized crime police squads, particularly the LAPD squad ran by Police Chief Bill Parker called the Gangster Squad. Since the familys decimation, Vegas has been considered open territory for all Mafia families to control, during the 1920s, teenage Jewish mobster Benjamin Siegel and Meyer Lansky smuggled and ran bootlegging and heroin operations for Jewish mob boss Arnold Rothstein, until his death in 1927. Siegel and Lansky also ran the Bugs and Meyer Mob from the 1920s to the mid-1930s, the gang would smuggle and bootleg illegal liquor during Prohibition from 1920 to 1933. The gang also served as muscle for other gangs in New York, Mafia Luciano family boss Charlie Luciano used the men to carry out hits on rival gangs. In 1929, Atlantic City Irish mob boss Enoch Nucky Johnson hosted the Atlantic City Conference, the two men that headed the conference was Masseria family lieutenant Charles Luciano and former Chicago Southside Gang boss Johnny Torrio. Siegel and Lansky were hired as the muscle for the meeting, at the meeting, Torrio and Luciano formed the National Crime Syndicate. Luciano, Joe Adonis, Vito Genovese, and Siegels partner in New Orleans and it was called by the press, Murder, Inc. Around the time that Luciano and Lansky were forming the Commission, Siegel had a disagreement with Philadelphia bootlegger Waxey Gordon and some of his associates, Siegel and Lansky had given the IRS information about Gordons tax evasion, this led to Gordon being imprisoned in 1933. Gordon hired the Fabrizzo brothers to kill Lansky and Siegel, after failed attempts on Lansky and himself, Siegel killed two of the brothers. When a third brother, Tony Fabrizzo, planned on writing a memoir about Siegels nationwide kill-for-hire squad with his attorney, Siegel killed him. In 1932, Siegel checked into a hospital and later snuck out, Siegel and two men approached Fabrizzos house disguised as detectives in order to lure him out. Soon after the hit, Siegel learned from his associates that he was in danger, due to his hospital alibi falling through, Siegel was in danger with his enemies wanting him dead. In the mid-late 1930s, the East Coast mob sent Siegel to California, when he got to Los Angeles, Siegel removed Dragna as his chief lieutenant and made Jewish gang boss Mickey Cohen his chief lieutenant. With Siegels reputation as a violent man and with the backing of Lansky, Siegel took over the numbers racket in Los Angeles. He used money from the syndicate to build a drug trade route from the U. S. to Mexico, by 1942, about $500,000 was coming from the syndicates bookmaking wire operations each day. In 1946, due to complications with Siegel, the Chicago Outfit took the Continental Press and handed over the operation to Dragna, despite those complications, Siegel controlled several illegal casinos and a major prostitution ring

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Dalton Gang
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The Dalton Gang was a group of outlaws in the American Old West during 1890–1892. It was also known as The Dalton Brothers because three of its members were brothers, the gang specialized in bank and train robberies. During an attempted robbery in Coffeyville, Kansas in 1892. He was paroled after serving 14 years in prison, the oldest brother Frank had been a Deputy U. S. Marshal, but was killed in 1888. In 1890, Gratton Grat, Bob, and Emmett turned to crime after not being paid as lawmen and their middle brother William M. Bill Dalton also had a career as an outlaw, but he rode with the Wild Bunch. The gangs were related through their mother to the Younger brothers, the Daltons were active later and independently of the James-Younger Gang. Their father was Lewis Dalton from Jackson County, Missouri and he was a saloon keeper in Kansas City, Missouri, when he married Adeline Younger. She became an aunt of Cole and Jim Younger, the Dalton boys were born in quick succession, Frank Dalton, Gratton Grat, William M. Bill, Bob, and Emmett Dalton. By 1882, the family was living in the Indian Territory, a few years later, they had settled in Coffeyville in southeastern Kansas. Lewis and Adeline Dalton had a total of 15 children, two of whom died in infancy, Frank Dalton was the oldest of the brothers and kept the others on their good behavior for some time as they followed his model into the law. He became a Deputy US Marshal, and his brothers rode with him in posses, Frank Dalton was killed when he was tracking a horse thief in the Oklahoma Territory. Dalton and another deputy marshal had located the fugitive with his companions on November 27,1888, the outlaws resisted, and shot Dalton dead. Two of the outlaws were killed, and Daltons companion was wounded, the wanted horse thief escaped capture. On December 3, the outlaws were located and a second gunfight took place. Marshal Ed Stokley shot and killed the horse thief, but was fatally wounded, Brothers Grat, Bob, and Emmett Dalton also became lawmen. Frontier conditions for towns were often strained, and in 1890, after not being paid money owed them, Bob Dalton had killed his first man at age 19. Deputy Marshal Dalton stated that the killing was in the line of duty, however, some noted that the dead man had been Daltons rival for a woman. In March 1890, Bob Dalton was charged with bringing forbidden liquor into the Indian Territory and he jumped bail and did not appear for his trial

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Five Points Gang
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Five Points Gang was a 19th-century and early 20th-century criminal organization, primarily of Irish-American origins, based in the Sixth Ward of Manhattan, New York City. In the early 19th century, the area was first known for gangs of Irish immigrants and their descendants gradually moved out, to be followed by the next immigrants. Paul Kelly, born as Paolo Antonio Vaccarelli, was an Italian American who founded the Five Points Gang, over the years, Kelly recruited youths who later became prominent criminals, such as Johnny Torrio, Al Capone and Lucky Luciano. The area of Manhattan where four streets – Anthony, Cross, Orange, mulberry, notorious for slum tenements, was one street down from the Five Points. This area, now the location of Chinatown, lay between Broadway and the Bowery, by the 1820s, this district had been a center of settlement for poor immigrants and was considered a slum area. Gambling dens and brothels were numerous in the Five Points area, and it was considered a dangerous destination, in 1842, Charles Dickens visited the area and was appalled at the poor living conditions in substandard housing. By the 1870s a wave of Italian and Eastern European Jewish immigrants were settling into the area, criminal gangs competed for control of the revenue to be made from illicit activities. Irish gangs, such as the Whyos, replaced the Chichesters, Monk Eastmans Eastman Coin Collectors had many Irish members. The 2002 film Gangs of New York is set in Five Points, the Italian immigrant Paul Kelly, formed the Five Points Gang, made up mostly of Italians. During the gangs later years, Kellys second-in-command John Torrio, helped form a crime syndicate in the United States. The Five Points Gang had a reputation for brutality, and in battles with rival gangs, Kelly and Torrio recruited members from other gangs in New York to join the Five Points organization. Al Capone came from the James Street gang, and would lead the Chicago Outfit. Torrio was the first to establish his style of racketeering in Chicago, Charles Lucky Luciano, also joined the Five Points crew, and was later considered the most powerful criminal in the country. As the Five Points Gang became more experienced, Kelly and his lieutenants saw the money to be made by supporting corrupt politicians in their election bids. By threatening voters, falsifying voter lists and stuffing ballot boxes, at the turn of the 20th century, the only competitors to the Five Pointers were from Monk Eastmans gang. The rivals disputed claims to a strip of territory of the Lower East Side in Manhattan, in 1901 a Five Pointer shot Eastman in the stomach, but he survived. Soon after, one of his crew killed a Five Pointer in retaliation, by 1903 the feud escalated, and the two gangs openly engaged in warfare. In one incident Kelly, Torrio and 50 Five Pointers were in a gun battle with a similarly sized force of Eastmans gang, police called to the scene had to retreat from the battle, which lasted several hours

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Frankfurt mafia
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Frankfurt mafia is an criminal group mostly from the little town of Veles, Macedonia that was involved in activities in Frankfurt, Germany and Vienna, Austria regarding heroin trade. It is a part of Macedonian mafia, then you have training, if you pass the training they sent you to Frankfurt to work for them. Boris Rhein, Hessen interior minister stated that Frankfurt mafia held about 90% of the trade for a couple of years, I believe this is the biggest-ever hit that weve carried out in Austria and neighboring countries, he said. It concerns a very dangerous group - with effective structures - well organized, according to police, the Frankfurt Mafia was able to penetrate the market so quickly by selling high-quality heroin at what was described as a reasonable price. Their profit in Vienna alone was estimated at 80,000 euros a day, Frankfurt mafia controlled 19 out of 24 blocks in Viennas drug trade using intelligence methods. The traffickers had taken control of the trade in Vienna in a short period of time. We noticed that this organisation was so good that it was able to large quantities of high-quality heroin within days. Macedonian mafia Video of arrests of members in Macedonia

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Gambino crime family
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The Gambino crime family is one of the Five Families that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia. The groups operations extend from New York and the seaboard to California. Its illicit activities include labor and construction racketeering, gambling, loansharking, extortion, money laundering, prostitution, fraud, hijacking, pier thefts, the family was one of the five families that were founded in New York after the Castellammarese War of 1931. For most of the next quarter-century, it was a player in organized crime. Its most prominent member during this time was its underboss Albert Anastasia and he remained a power even after Murder, Inc. was smashed in the late 1940s, and took over his family in 1951—by all accounts, after murdering the familys founder Vincent Mangano. The rise began in 1957 of what was the most powerful family in America for a time. Experts believe that Anastasias underboss Carlo Gambino helped orchestrate the hit to take over the family, Gambino partnered with Meyer Lansky to control gambling interests in Cuba. The familys fortunes grew through 1976, when Gambino appointed his brother-in-law Paul Castellano as boss upon his death, Castellano infuriated upstart capo John Gotti, who orchestrated Castellanos murder in 1985. Gottis downfall came in 1992, when his underboss Salvatore Sammy the Bull Gravano decided to cooperate with the FBI, Gravanos cooperation brought down Gotti, along with most of the top members of the Gambino family. The family is headed by Frank Cali. The origins of the Gambino crime family can be traced back to the faction of newly transplanted mafiosi from Palermo, Sicily who were originally led by Ignazio Lupo. When he and his partner by business and marriage, Giuseppe Morello, were sent to prison for counterfeiting in 1910, Salvatore Toto DAquila, one of Lupos chief captains, DAquila was an influential emigrant from Palermo who joined the Lupo gang based in East Harlem. Founded in the 1900s, the Lupo Mano Nera gang was one of the first Italian criminal groups in New York, Lupo was partner in many ventures with Morello, who was the original capo di tutti capi, a title that would later be coveted by DAquila. As other gangs formed in New York, they acknowledged Morello as their boss of bosses, in 1906, DAquilas name first appeared on police records for running a confidence scam. In 1910, Giuseppe Morello and Ignazio Lupo, were sentenced to 30 years in prison for counterfeiting, with the Morello family weakened, DAquila used the opportunity to establish the dominance of what was now his own Palermitani family in East Harlem. DAquila quickly used his ties to other Mafia leaders in the United States to create a network of influence, by 1910, more Italian gangs had formed in New York City. In addition to the original Morello gang in East Harlem and DAquilas own, now growing gang, also in East Harlem, in Brooklyn, Nicolo Cola Schirò established a second gang of Sicilian mafiosi from Castellammare del Golfo, west of Palermo, in Sicily. A third Sicilian gang was formed by Alfred Mineo in Brooklyn, another Morello captain, Gaetano Reina, had also broken away in the Bronx, ruling that area with impunity

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Gente Nueva
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Amid the internal struggles and infightings in the Juárez cartel, Gente Nueva began to recruit the cartels members. By 2012, U. S. intelligence indicated that the Sinaloa cartel and Gente Nueva have emerged victorious, the El Paso–Juárez corridor is a lucrative route for drug traffickers because the DEA estimates that about 70% of the cocaine that enters the United States flows through that area. The turf wars between them have more than 10,000 dead in four years. Gente Nueva is responsible for a number of crimes, including but not limited to extortions, kidnappings, tortures,18 patients were killed in the attack and two others were left wounded. When the Mexican authorities removed the bodies, a thick layer of blood was left at the concrete floor of the clinic. Local newspapers stated that the gunmen were plotting to kill members of Los Aztecas, on February 2012 in León, Guanajuato – José Antonio Torres Marrufo – a leader of Gente Nueva, was arrested and found responsible for ordering the attack. Gente Nueva had killed 8 people at the 7&7 Bar in Ciudad Juárez just a few weeks before the rehab center attack. The attack was materialized within sight of the U. S. -Mexico border and is one of the worst single mass shootings in the history of Ciudad Juárez. The Mexican authorities stated that the drug trafficking organizations use rehabilitation clinics to recruit soldiers and smugglers. Others are killed for failing to pay for their drugs or for ripping off a dealer, in addition, the cartels frequently target unlicensed rehabilitation centers, since they are likely to accept active gang members seeking to free themselves from an addiction. In Ciudad Juárez alone, there are around 100,000 drug addicts and many of the clinics are unlicensed and ran by former addicts. Some cartel members even check themselves in the facility and pose as addicts, once they gain information of why the facility works, they co-opt with workers or threaten to kill them. Some of the addicts sell candy and gum at the stop lights to raise money for those struggling in their rehab center. The drug cartels have created and managed pseudo-clinics, and once their patients are off drugs. The cartels usually dispose of their young addicts by killing them, since the criminal organizations quickly recruit young men, in 2010, violence in Ciudad Juárez reached its peak, seeing an average of 10 homicides per day, or about 230 murders per 100,000 people annually. That same year, the average in all of Mexico was of 18 murders per 100,000 inhabitants. La Línea and the Juárez cartel lived their biggest blow with the arrest of José Antonio Acosta Hernández, the Juárez cartel continues to operate in the city, but it no longer holds a monopoly and appears to be unable to expand. Other experts echoe that the cartel is having difficulties paying its members and their relationship with the Barrio Azteca gang has also been tampered by the cartels decline

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Greco Mafia clan
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The Greco Mafia family is a historic and one of the most influential Mafia clans in Sicily and Calabria, going back to the late 19th century. Members of the family were important figures in the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, Salvatore Ciaschiteddu Greco was the first ‘secretary’ of the Sicilian Mafia Commission, while Michele Greco, also known as The Pope, was one of his successors. According to the pentito Antonio Calderone the Grecos effectively exercised power in the whole of Sicily, according to Giovanni Brusca the Greco family was very important and the ones who tipped the balance in every internal Mafia war. Both family groups probably had an ancestor in Salvatore Greco who was mentioned in the Sangiorgi report at the turn of the 20th century as the capomafia of Ciaculli. The Grecos were typical representatives of the rural Mafia, in 1916, they ordered the murder of a priest who had denounced the Mafia’s interference in the administration of ecclesiastical revenues and charity funds during a Sunday sermon. In 1921, a Greco who had suffered a sgarro killed two shepherds along with their flock of sheep, in 1929, a Greco fired twenty bullets into an enemy’s great casks of wine and then sat down amid the foaming splinters to smoke his pipe. In 1939 a bloody vendetta between both started during a brawl about a question of honour among youngsters of the two clans. The son of Giuseppe Greco, also known as Piddu u tinenti, in 1946-47, the bloody internal feud between the factions in Ciaculli and Croceverde Giardini reached a climax. On August 26,1946, Giuseppe Greco, the boss of the Ciaculli clan and a brother-in-law of Piddu u tinenti, the Ciaculli faction reacted a few months later when two of Piddu the lieutenant’s men were shot with a lupara, the typical Sicilian short-barrelled shotgun. In revenge the Giardini cosca kidnapped two members of the faction who were never seen again, a so-called lupara bianca. The struggle between the clans came to a peak with a gunfight in the main square of Ciaculli on September 17,1947. First, an important member of the Giardini cosca was shot down by a machine gun, in return, the brother and sister of the victim shot the women, Antonina was wounded and her daughter killed. Their attacker was shot and killed by Antonina’s 18-year-old son. Moreover, Piddu was expected to care for both factions of the feuding clans, after the killing of the bosses of the rival faction. His status depended on how he would manage the situation, Piddu the lieutenant asked for mediation from Antonio Cottone, the boss of the Mafia family of Villabate, a town close to Ciaculli and Croceverde. At the time, Profaci was in Sicily and it seems he played an important role in the peace negotiations and they became co-owners of a citrus fruit export business and partners in a bus company. Historians are sceptical about the blood feud theory of the struggle, at stake was the control of the citrus plantations, the management of the citrus derivatives business and transport, as well as control over the wholesale markets in eastern Palermo. Six of the victims in the war did not bear the Greco name, the blood feud legend was probably spread around to hide the real motives behind the struggle

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Knights Templar Cartel
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After the first alleged death of Nazario Moreno, leader of the La Familia Michoacana cartel, on 9 December 2010, a split between the cartel leaders emerged. Some of the cartel co-founders, Enrique Plancarte Solís, Servando Gómez Martínez, the Knights Templar Cartel indoctrinates its operatives to fight and die for the cartel. They have taken control of the now-defunct La Familia Michoacana operations in states including Michoacán, Guerrero, the state of Mexico. On February 27,2015, Servando La Tuta Gomez Leader of the Knights Templar was arrested by the Mexican federal police, a non-specific number of his associates were also arrested and many properties were also seized by the Mexican government. The former Pope Benedict XVI had a visit scheduled on 23 March 2012 to the Mexican state of Guanajuato, the banners read the following, There were other similar banners that were allegedly signed by their rivals, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. The Knights Templar cartel was founded on an ethical code developed by La Tuta. The code is contained in a book that is handed out to all members of the cartel. The book is decorated with knights on horseback with lances and crosses, the 22 page book is titled The Code of the Knights Templar of Michoacan and contains the rules and regulations of the gang. The gang has based its rules on those of the European Knights Templar, members swear to help the poor and helpless, fight against materialism, respect women and children, not kill for money, and not use drugs. The Knights even go as far as drug testing all members, while the cartel has moved more towards accepting criminal acts prohibited by the ethical code, breaking the code can still incur punishment by death. Mexican Drug War José Manuel Mireles Valverde - leader of a group of paramilitary groups that work against the Knights Templar Cartel